Connected Campus: How we're doing | UBC Campus & Community Planning

To help meet the transportation targets of the UBC Vancouver Land Use Plan and Climate Action Plan, UBC encourages and supports the use of sustainable modes of transportation through incentives, ongoing engagement with the campus community and continued collaboration with TransLink to improve transit service. UBC is also continuing efforts to bring a rapid transit connection to UBC.

Target
Maintain daily private automobile traffic at or less than 1997 levels.

How we're doing
In 2023, there were 58,800 private vehicles per day, that's 6% lower than 1997, despite steady population rise on campus.

Private automobiles include overall vehicle traffic (e.g. single occupant vehicles and carpools/vanpools).

Target
By 2040 at least two-thirds of all trips to and from UBC will be made by walking, cycling or transit and at least 50% of all trips to and from the campus will be on public transit.

How we’re doing
In 2023, 54% of all trips were made by transit, walking and cycling and 53% of all trips to and from the campus were made by transit. Programs such as U-Pass and the Mobi e-bike expansion help remove some of the barriers to taking transit and cycling to campus.

Target
Reduce single occupant vehicle (SOV) trips to and from UBC by 20% from 1997 levels and reduce single occupancy vehicle trips per person to and from UBC by 30% from 1997 levels.

How we're doing
In 2023, there were 53,200 SOV trips to campus compared to 1997 (a 16% increase). The increase in SOV trips may be attributed to ongoing avoidance of transit due to overcrowding (one of the last impacts of the pandemic) as well as more people using ride-hail companies to commute to campus.

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